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δυσπολέμητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσπολέμητος δυσπολέμητον

Structure: δυσπολεμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poleme/w

Sense

  1. hard to war with

Examples

  • καθόλου γὰρ ἡ Ἀραβία δυσπολέμητόσ ἐστι ξενικαῖσ δυνάμεσι διὰ τὸ τὴν μὲν ἔρημον αὐτῆσ εἶναι, τὴν δὲ ἄνυδρον καὶ διειλημμένην φρέασι κεκρυμμένοισ καὶ μόνοισ τοῖσ ἐγχωρίοισ γνωριζομένοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 1 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard to war with

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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